Nathaniel Henshaw

Nathaniel Henshaw M.D. (baptised 1628 – 1673) was an English physician and original Fellow of the Royal Society.[1]

Life

He was a younger son of Benjamin Henshaw (died 4 December 1631) and his wife Anne, daughter of William Bonham of London; Thomas Henshaw was his elder brother.[2] He first studied medicine at the University of Padua in 1649.[1] He was entered for the physic course at Leyden University on 4 November 1653, proceeded M.D. there, and was admitted M.D. ad eundem at Trinity College, Dublin in the summer term 1664.[2]

On 20 May 1663 Henshaw was elected Fellow of the Royal Society. He practised in Dublin as a physician, but died in London in September 1673, and was buried on 13 September in Kensington Church. His will, dated 6 August 1673, was proved at London on the following 11 September by his sister, Anne Grevys.[2]

Works

Henshaw was author of a treatise Aero-Chalinos (1664)[3] concerned with "fresh air" and its medical value.[4] A second edition (London, 1677) was printed by order of the Royal Society, at a meeting held on 1 March 1677, having been prepared for the press by Thomas Henshaw. It was reviewed in Philosophical Transactions (xii. 834–5) by Henry Oldenburg.[2]

Papers written by Henshaw on saltpetre and gunpowder were strongly attacked by Henry Stubbe.[5]

Notes
  1. Wallis, Patrick. "Henshaw, Nathaniel". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/12988. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. Stephen, Leslie; Lee, Sidney, eds. (1891). "Henshaw, Nathaniel" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 26. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  3. Aero-Chalinos: or a Register for the Air; in five Chapters. 1. Of Fermentation. 2. Of Chylification. 3. Of Respiration. 4. Of Sanguification. 5. That often changing the Air is a friend to health. Also a discovery of a new method of doing it, without removing from one place to another, by means of a Domicil, or Air-Chamber, fitted to that purpose. For the better preservation of Health, and cure of Diseases, after a new Method, Dublin, 1664.
  4. Peter Brimblecombe (26 July 2012). The Big Smoke (Routledge Revivals): A History of Air Pollution in London since Medieval Times. Routledge. pp. 56–. ISBN 978-1-136-70329-4.
  5. R. Hillyer (18 November 2013). Divided between Carelessness and Care: A Cultural History. Springer. p. 63. ISBN 978-1-137-36863-8.
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